SHUT DOWN POOR PERFORMING NURSING SCHOOLS; Audit Commision demands

[Hoss]

CoA tells CHEd: Shut subpar nursing schools

MANILA, Philippines -- The Commission on Audit has urged the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) to phase out the nursing programs in colleges and universities whose graduates perform badly in state licensure examinations.

In a report to acting CHEd Chair Romulo Neri, the CoA said it was necessary for the CHEd to exercise its regulatory function to "maintain and protect standards set to ensure the quality of nursing graduates."...............

Worse, at least 19 or 7.22 percent of these schools had "failed to pass even a single student," said the CoA.

The CoA said the schools without single passing graduate were located in, among other regions, Bicol (4), Southern Tagalog (4), Central Luzon (3) and Ilocos (2).

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[suzanne4, RN]

Perhaps they are starting to see that some of these programs only excel at collecting fees from students, and nothing more.

Glad to see that they are finally deciding to attempt to do something about what has happened to the educational system as far as nursing there.

Please keep us posted as to what happens with this.

[spongebob6286, BSN, RN]

I totally agreed with that.they were some schools that they were less than 5 students who took the board & yet none of them passed!just imagine did they really learned something from their school.with the said proposal parents can enrol their children to school not only after for their money but for quality education.

[Hoss]

The really sad part is how badly the student nurse gets ripped off in a poor performing or non performing school. Most Filipinos have no idea how "good" or "bad" the education is at a school, and as a result they commit themselves to enrollment after high school and no way to judge how bad the school is until it is too late. A student who might have done very well at UP, Silliman, SLU, Ateneo or other consistently excellent schools has NO CHANCE once they enroll in a bad school. The good schools do not take transfer students after they get stuck in a poor performer. The upper performing schools will test a student right out of high school and admit them based on their HS Transcripts and testing. Should a good student get sucked into one of these diploma mills, they are screwed and cannot just quit and transfer to a top performing school. There is no requirement to disclose to a student that the school they are enrolled in passes only 10% at Licensure!! The student has no recourse but to find a different school that may be a little better than the bad school, but they are forever lost in opportunity to get into a top performing school.

There are no "deceptive trade practice" laws in the Philippines. One can only hope that a student wanting to go to a good school can be guided by adults who thoroghly examine the record and reputation of the school prior to comitting to enrollment. I can only hope that when you see a school with 300 students taking the NLE and only 30 pass, that the other failed students will demand some recourse through the legal system as a group. Sad indeed! The victims are the students!

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[suzanne4, RN]

Look at all of the LPN programs there that fail to tell the students that are interested, or their families that they will not be able to get a legal visa for the US to work with this training. It is only acceptable in the US when they already have a green card or are a US citizen.

The H2-B visa that we see mentioned every so often on this forum is not for nurses, only temporary unskilled workers. So if someone comes into the US with this visa and is a nurse and will be working in that role, they are subject to being deported for immigration fraud. And since it is only nursing homes that are hiring them, they are wide open to getting deported and sent home for at least ten years.

Not sure why the programs think that it is just fine to scam money from unsuspecting students in the first place. And then you add on to this, the fact that most other countries will not issue visas for the LPN, and the Philippine government does not even recognize it for licensure, but they let schools open to teach it.

And then there is the issue of more than 600,000 students enrolled in 430 plus RN programs and no chance of getting a job in your country. AS long as the government thinks that this is just fine and when you see 15 to 18 students per one patient and nurses from there no longer getting the training as they used to, wonder why there are so many things like this going on that your government does not think is an issue.

What really needs to be done is that the government officials have to be treated by some of these new grads that never had the proper training in the first place, but are now graduates of the schools there. Things would change in a heart beat. And then when I see some of the younger nurses there posting that everyone wants them because they are a Filipina and that they are the best nurses in the world, but they trained in one of these poor programs and have no work experience, so how can they boast that they are the best?

Sorry to go on with my soap box today, just get madder and madder when I see a country that once produced some excellent nurses throw all standards out the window.

[gemini_star, BSN, RN]

Yes to shutdown! I like it when Suzanne gets mad. I hope the government will really do something and not just saying it. Let's see what happens.